Senior UX Designer AD/ADAS

Who are we?
Volvo Cars is a company on a mission; to bring traditional car manufacturing into a connected, sustainable and smart future.
Since 1927, we have been a brand known for our commitment to safety, creating innovative cars that make life less complicated for our consumers. In 2010, we decided to transform our business, resulting in a totally new generation of cars and technologies, as well as steady growth and record sales. Today, we’re expanding our global footprint in Europe, China and the US, and we’re on the lookout for new talent.
We are constantly pushing our own skills and abilities to drive change in the automobile industry like never before. We are looking for innovative, committed people to join us in this endeavour and create safe, sustainable and connected cars. We believe in the power of people and will challenge and support you to reach your full potential. Join us and be part of Volvo Cars’ journey into the future.

We are seeking UX Designers to expand our Autonomous and Assisted Drive team in Gothenburg, Sweden. The Team consists of other UX designers, Visual designers, and UX Researchers. The team works in close collaboration with developers and other stakeholders.

What’s in it for you?
Volvo Cars is on an ambitious journey to redefine what it means to own a vehicle during one of most innovative times in the transport industry. Volvo Cars is looking to redefine all aspects of the car eco-system including ownership, autonomous driving, vehicle electrification, sustainability and online shopping. User Experience as a discipline is a key part of Volvo Cars' strategy and a newly formed UX organization will help gather insights about our user's and redefine and elevate the users experience of Volvo's products and Services.

Main responsibilities include
As a UX Designer on the Car UX team, you will work on defining features, products within the Autonomous and Assisted drive systems of the car. Your responsibility will be to deliver design artifacts, such as user flows, wireframes, and prototypes that balance design aesthetics with intuitive functionality. 

You will collaborate with other designers and ensure a seamless customer experience across Volvo’s digital landscape. And as part of a product team, you will communicate designs, ideas, and rationale with your team using data and customer insights.

As a designer you advocate for the user, you will develop a deep understanding of our customer needs and pain-points, serving as an expert for your product team and develop ideas for new and enhanced features. 

Location
Volvo Cars Headquarters in Gothenburg, Sweden

How to learn more and apply
If you want to learn more about the position, team, or process, please contact Senior Recruiter to the UX Organization, Megan Reif at +46 (0) 763 121 018. We look forward to receiving your application as soon as possible.

If you link to or upload your portfolio/examples of your where you documented your work processes, your application will be prioritized. We will be evaluting and interviewing candidates on an ongoing basis. 

The UX Organization is growing and has several roles in the pipeline. If you would like to stay in contact about this as well as future positions, you are welcome to create your career account at Volvo Cars so we can contact you about future roles.

You and your skills
We are looking for you who have been designing for 6 or more years for a consumer-focused tech company, so you understand what it takes to create elegant, consumer-oriented experiences. We think you also have a degree in Interaction design or related field. You are a versatile designer who uses a full range of skills—product design, interaction design, and visual design — to ensure you deliver magical experiences to the customer. It is preferred that you have experience working with interactive 3D scenes including modelling, lighting, shaders and materials, and animation. You have a people-focused design mentality. Constantly looking to hone your design instinct through user feedback. Whether that’s hands-on user research or a quantitative A/B test.

We are an international organization and we would like to see that you have excellent communication skills, as well as good verbal and written presentation skills in English.

On personal level, you are a strong communicator and collaborator, who can work with not only design partners, but many other stakeholders from marketing to engineering. You are individual you who can easily inspire teams towards action and empathy for the user.

You must be able to provide a portfolio of projects (or samples of preview work) to which you have made a substantial contribution and/or make a portfolio presentation as part of the selection process.